skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And just to elaborate on this: it's not just snobbery about the color of the texts, for people who rely on iMessage as their primary communication platform it really is a severely degraded experience texting with someone who uses Android. We Android users have long since adapted to it by just avoiding SMS/MMS in favor of other platforms, but iPhone users are accustomed to just being able to send a video in iMessage and have it be decent quality when viewed.

Source: I'm an Android user with a lot of iPhones on my in-laws side.
In this particular case, maybe

> The judges said the permit to do the surveys had been granted unlawfully
That article is just a journalist who read that tweet, and is bulking it out with a bunch of sales numbers in a kind of rambling manner. The tweet on its own was a better way to get this information.
If we had to have a perfect system with no flaws on day one in order to implement this, you would have a solid argument. But while that would be ideal, we don't actually have to have that, so your argument is completely beside the point.

Worse: Most of the circumventions of income tax are to increase in wealth without having income (as recognized by the tax system). A wealth tax is therefore a fix for your complaints about income tax.

Look, I'm not convinced a wealth tax (or worse, cap) is the answer. I suspect it may be worse than the disease. But your arguments against it seem pretty weak.
Kinda weird to exclude Procreate, Affinity, Final Cut, Logic, etc. from your definition of content creation. The trend has clearly been more professional and creative apps year over year and ever more capable devices to run them on. I mean, you're right that nobody wants to use Photoshop on the iPad, but that's because there are better options.

Honestly, the biggest barrier to creativity is thinking you need a specific concept of a "serious workstation" to do it. Plenty of people are using $2k+ desktops just to play video games.
I guess it will be similar to Pixel 7? There is an iFixit for it: https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Google+Pixel+7+Battery+Replacem...

I recently replaced a screen on a Pixel 6a and it was okay. So far so good.
When I was that age I read basically nothing but Hardy Boys books. Also Alex Rider books and Harry Potter, all out of order.
If history has anything to say, courts find very creative ways to allow otherwise baseless laws to stand when national security is in question (which is really why Tik Took is even being singled out in the first place). The question comes down to whether the judges believe that TikTok represents a legitimate threat of propaganda to the US to warrant the action.
> Mechanical engineering interviews seem to do the same as software:

I've been an engineer in the past (physics undergrad -> aerospace job -> grad school/ml). I have never seen or heard of an engineer being expected to solve math equations on a whiteboard during an interview. It is expected that you already know these things. Honestly, it is expected that you have a reference to these equations and you'll have memorized what you do most.

As an example, I got a call when I was finishing my undergrad for a job from Raytheon. I was supposedly the only undergrad being interviewed but first interview was a phone interview. I got asked an optics question and I said to the interviewer "you mind if I grab my book? I have it right next to me and I bookmarked that equation thinking you might ask and I'm blanking on the coefficients (explain form of equation while opening book)". He was super cool with that and at the end of the interview said I was on his short list.

I see no problem with this method. We live in the age of the internet. You shouldn't be memorizing a bunch of stuff purposefully, you should be memorizing by accident (aka through routine usage). You should know the abstractions and core concepts but the details are not worth knowing off the top of your head (obviously you should have known at some point) unless you are actively using them.
>If you can buy the building cheap enough, conventional wisdom can be thrown out the window.

Maybe, but you can't throw out the building codes. A warehouse, certainly, can be retrofit. But office towers? Almost certainly not.

Elevators are not sized for residential; electrical service not sized for residential loads (dishwasher/dryer/microwaves/ovens); HVAC not sized for residential heat loads (same as above); metering requirements means the existing electrical rooms are not large enough (they are never large enough); plumbing and sewer are not sized for residential.

It goes on and on. Even if you got the building for free, you'd still want to run the numbers to see if it's still cheaper to demolish and build again. It's not entirely clear whether it is or is not.

It can be done if you make huge, expansive apartments, which has to be read as "really expensive". There aren't that many really rich people who can drop 5 figures per month for an apartment.
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If it was "implausible" the case would have been dismissed. I don't see anybody arguing that there is no case, only that the case has not at this point decided that Israel is culpable for acts of genocide. You claimed the opposite upthread. That was incorrect. We don't need to harp on this or keep going, but I don't think there's a way to rehabilitate your analysis of the ICJ ruling. It was wrong. Preliminary injunctions are issued in cases where the defense wins all the time.

If you do some reading on the "Plausibility" standard in the ICJ --- it's a recent development --- I think you're going to find it's a pretty low bar.
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I don't disagree with anything you said, but I do think that people would generally be a lot happier if they can find comfort in living a relatively simple life. I know most people can't just uproot themselves instantly, but in my personal opinion, living somewhere more rural is 100% worth it in every single way. Lower cost of living, closer local communities (you GOTTA give a friendly wave when you drive past a stranger on a backroad, them's the rules!), more sunshine, fresh air, wide open fields...

The job market isn't as competitive as the Bay Area, but if you can remote work and/or get a local non-tech job making a livable wage (there's so many lifted trucks out here, these guys make money), it almost doesn't matter what you do for work, it pays the bills and you can spend time with family after that. You have a house, you have a car, you have a family, maybe you even have a camper like many others around you, and you go camping at the lake every month in the summer! Truly, rural living can actually be an idyllic paradise if you do it right!
My intel Atom D2500 1.86 ghz still runs the latest Open BSD.
The use of language models like GPT has spread beyond the technology sector in recent years. Some applications in non-tech industries include: finance, health, education, customer services, manufacturing and public sector. While there are still challenges to overcome, such as adapting to specific domains and ensuring security and privacy, the use of GPT and other language models is becoming increasingly common in a wide range of industries beyond the technology sector.
true, but can the average person replace the innertube on a bicycle wheel? :)
Actually the Pixels are great just because of GrapheneOS.
Chiming in with a suggested correction: s/Philosophy/Philosophize/

And, totally agree with the episodes (#172–#175) being worth multiple listens. They're that good.
Again, not saying that they are easy (or cheap!) problems to solve, but that there are more relatively easy problems in the ARM space than the x86 space.

That’s why Apple can release a meaningfully new chip every year where it takes several for x86 manufacturers
Right I was thinking more laptops and desktops but yeah 8/16 makes a ton more sense for the ipad only.
I don't think it's wildly optimistic, but perhaps we are thinking about it in different ways. I don't think I could teach someone how to implement each data structure in an hour, but I could easily go over maps/queues/stacks/hashtables and tell you when to use each in an hour. I know this because I do that very thing in less than an hour in code reviews.

I do agree that the "stickiness" is iffy, but it usually sticks pretty well. You then have a second problem that can be described as "when you have a hammer, everything is a nail" as they use their new fancy hashtable everywhere.
The screen is the killer. you can have a nice-ish 2nd corporate laptop with decent and swappable battery on which you can install a decent OS (non Windows) and get good milage but the screen is something else.
> But those damn ads they deliver as notifications! WTF. Why would they do that.

Hmm I feel like you missed something. Notifications should not be an issue.
You can use a local LLM like Llama 3, they're pretty good. Zero risk of getting banned by them.
This isn't unique to Google. This is encouraged at Uber and Airbnb as well. I would think its a common practice. The idea is to show that you consider alternatives and did due diligence. Following the way its always been done isn't necessarily a good thing. If its a different product area there could be better approaches unique to that area. Its not fake work, it just proves you actually considered other approaches instead of blindly following status quo.
Honestly, if they manage this, they have my money.
But to get actually powerful models running, they need to supply the devices with enough RAM - and that's definitely not what Apple like to do.
> and the slot can't be closer to the CPU because?

All the traces going into the slot need to be length-matched to obscene precision, and the physical width of the slot and the room required by the "wiggles" made in the middle traces to length-match them restrict how close you can put the slot. Most modern boards are designed to place it as close as possible.

LPCAMM2 fixes this by having a lot of the length-matching done in the connector.
I know all that. But, have you perhaps been in an undergrad classroom recently? It's still predominantly lecture-based.
I have heard really good things about the Pixels. Also GrapheneOS supports almost exclusively Pixels, so I would think that they aren't that bad.
I think that's actually what I'm thinking of.
I think they were Ender's siblings, actually
Thanks, you saved me from re-reading Count Zero too
> "On edge" is not a model existence limitation

It absolutely is. Model distillation will still be pertinent. And so will be parameter efficient tuning for edge training. I cannot emphasize more how important this is. You will need your own set of weights. If apple wants to use open weights, then sure. Ignore this. Don't seem like they want to long-term... And even if they use open weights, they will still be behind other companies have done model distillation and federated learning for years.

> Why is a distinct model required?

Ask apple's newly poached AI hires this question. Doesn't seem like you would take an answer from me.

> If others are making models, with no way to actually run them

Is this the case? People have been running distilled llamas on rPis with pretty good throughput.
> "Why don't I use this more often? It's fantastic."

PDF marking and procreate are my main uses for it. And using the ipad on a flat surface.
I hadn't thought of that as part of why finding good dark roasts has been hard for me. I've been annoyed at light roasts for a long time because I tend to find them acidic to the point that they're not enjoyable. I appreciate the bitterness and toastiness of a good dark roast, but finding good ones has been few and far between in my experience.
Anecdotal (from NL): I had access to a library end of 80s/90s. Everything mandatory wasn't fun, but had to be done. Providing a small, meaningful choice would've been more fun. Comics and non-fiction for kids was available, but if you did not like fiction then you are kind of hosed. I 'never' (esp in early youth) liked fiction because I could not easily imagine the story, or it just did not interest me. It wasn't real, so I couldn't see the point of it. My weakness for sure, but if I had access to more/better informational non-fiction I would've read it like the info sponge I was. And having fun while doing so.

I remember very well when I was about 8 or 9, I always lost the trail when we did group reading at school (each kid one sentence). And then I got punished for that. Also not very... let us say encouraging.

Nowadays, I'm still not much of a fiction sucker, but I've come to enjoy quite some fiction. Just not in time for high school, and even then I liked books which weren't for my age or my gender or whatever.

If my kids don't like certain fiction, I won't force it upon them. I want them to read, and will try with suggestions and what not but if they really do not like fiction, forcing it upon them won't help.

I just hope they won't waste their time on something as useless and nefarious as TikTok. One could argue that is the comics or TV series of the 21th century. Well, even if TikTok were harmless to health and a great application, comics or TV series didn't profile you for an authoritarian state.

EDIT:

> Yet, somehow, reading persists; more books are sold today than were sold before the pandemic

This does not mean, at all, that [all] these books are read. Terrible assumption.
For the Pixels, have a look at GrapheneOS :-)
I think it will be a winning strategy. Lag is a real killer for LLMs.

I think they'll have another LLM on a server (maybe a deal for openai/gemini) that the one on the device can use like ChatGPT uses plugins.

But on device Apple have a gigantic advantage. Rabbit and Humane are good ideas humbled by shitty hardware that runs out of battery, gets too hot, has to connect to the internet to do literally anything.

Apple is in a brilliant position to solve all those things.

I hope they announce something good at WWDC
- Lazygit: has completely replaced how I do all git things now. Fantastic interface, nice and speedy, easy to learn.

- K9s: replaced my use of kubectl and the K8s dashboard. Lets you go from browse —> action on a resource so much faster than kubectl.

- btop: it’s like top, but way prettier.
Announced next year (by March) means shipping even later. Some might put off purchasing but that’s easily countered by a price drop.
Meta is expanding its paid verification service for businesses
Also why do you need knowledge on compilers and graphs to create React?

Firstly, React is not compiled. Secondly the graph or tree or whichever aspect can come naturally when you come up with the idea of how it would be best to maintain JS apps.

In fact most important experience should have been grinding put tons of unmaintainable JS apps to come up with something like that.
thanks, no problem
Yep, that was my same approach as well.
3) Diffusion of responsibility, continuing the trend of the past few decades. For example creating ever more layers of disempowered reps and rule-executing paperwork pushers, while cloistering away anyone who has any decision authority. Next it'll be LLMs running such interference.
Totally tangent: One of my favorite nitpicks (some others are use of two spaces before a period, the Oxford comma, and the idea that light slows down in a medium) is that the Rosetta Stone is not trilingual: the two texts is Ancient Egyptian use different characters - Hieroglyphs and Demotic. The former is a stilted form mimicking Middle Egyptian while the latter would be accessible to more people.

So the two are not word for word same but are not different languages either.

For a true trilingual inscription that also helped with decipherment, see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behistun_Inscription
The vast majority of measures on the list I linked do not increase maintenance at all, and certainly don't cause a "lot more in vehicle maintenance". Some, like a roundabout, may cause driver to spend less in maintenance vs. alternative intersection designs.
this is what happens when you listen to the soundtrack on repeat for weeks while developing this...
I have not used this specific library but its far from unrealistic and hardly a money pit. A LLM can fit in nicely with scraping libraries. Sure if you are crawling the web like google, it makes no sense, but if you have a hit list, this can be a cost effective way to not have engineering hours spent maintaining the crawler.
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Wake up yourself and all the dogs in the neighborhood at the same time. I want one.

I went through the obligatory Australian fascination with espresso and am well over it. It is a load of fetishistic bs and scalding hot coffee is disgusting. I buy bottles of cold brew from a local roaster and avoid the hassle.
Cynical answer: because art is a field where there is no unambiguous distinction between "correct" and "incorrect", between "good" and "bad". At the end of the day all that art needs to be is "interesting", and that's a much lower threshold to meet than, say, designing a functioning piece of machinery.

Upbeat answer: because the current wave of AI is about getting computers to think fuzzily - dare I say intuitively - in terms that make sense to humans. Art is exactly the kind of thing that until recently seemed completely out of reach to our programming techniques, and the fact that computers can now do it at all still holds tremendous novelty value.
The point is that becoming "carbon neutral" by buying carbon offsets while encouraging rampant consumerism is not good for environment.

Carbon offsets are about as credible as the oil industry giants saying they don't really pollute very much at all. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_offsets_and_credits
Stock buybacks and wage increases are not necessarily related issues. A stock buyback is just a way to return money to shareholders. A wage increase is about paying your workforce appropriately. The only connection between the two is that they both involve a transfer of value from the company to a group of stakeholders but it is not as if the choice is exclusive or correlated.

Companies generally pay their workers more only if they have to (tight labor market, threat of stoppages, etc). Companies generally do stock buybacks if that is the best use of the cash at hand (ie there are no better investment opportunities for the capital available). The considerations are completely different.
> Today even my chat, email client and IDE are written in JavaScript...

Yeah I don't consider that a good thing :-)
Is there a corresponding video showing dexterity?
Back in the day I implemented this, the trick is that the firmware motion planner is generally by default not designed to handle smooth curves in 3D, only in 2D. We could have adjusted to fix that but the other issue was it makes the printing/slicing process even more unpredictable, which therefore makes it harder to use as an engineering tool.
Here’s a handy free utility to automate this for you: https://topnotch.app

Personally I never see the desktop background so I just set desktop to Black, it’s perfect for me.
There’s that quote Adam Savage always says that goes something like “the difference between ‘science’ and ‘goofing off’ is writing it down”.

I’ve always liked that sentiment, since it sort of works to “ungatekeep” science. It’s easy to be intimidated by the seeming monolith of “science”, but fundamentally science basically boils down to “doing, testing, and measuring something” and it doesn’t really matter what that “something” actually is.
I bet they cannot set up that bridge without "stopping traffic completely". It needs to be built or at least moved to the target spot, during that time, traffic needs to be stopped.

From a network engineer standpoint this sounds like false advertisement ;-)
("Your server can be moved to another rack non-disruptively. We just need to disconnect your network cable and connect it to another switch.")

But still, this is pretty cool
it seems hard to swallow this connection. How can oral health cause diabetes?
Funny, my 4th grader has basically zero homework. She goes to a 'good' public school in Silicon Valley, for reference.
American cities have developments like this now (Baltimore and Philly for example), but it requires acquiring gentrifiable land/buildings, the capital to renovate them, and demand to pull in the middle-class hipsters to live there.
There are many nonconvex functions where every local minimum is global, and even many nonconvex functions with a unique local minimum (which is de facto global). Convex methods can fail on those.

The reason why GD and friends are a good choice in deep learning is that computing the gradient is cheap (and approximating it even more so). Every descent method relies on solving a subproblem of sorts, typically projecting the current iterate on a sublevel set of an approximation of the function, for some definition of projection. With GD, it's as cheap as it gets, just subtract a shrinked version of the gradient. Subproblems in other algorithms are a lot more expensive computationally, particularly at high dimensions. So more efficient as in requiring fewer function evaluations, yes, but at the cost of doing a lot more work at each step.
Keep in mind that 150k USD can also be a terminal salary at 30 years of experience in most other places in the US.

Most jobs are not FAANG or FAANG adjacent.
I love the air form factor. I do serious work on it as well. I have used a pro, but the air does everything I need without breaking a sweat, and it's super convenient to throw in a bag and carry around the house.
I'm writing this from my Framework 16 with GPU and it is the best laptop I've ever known. It's heavy and big and not the most portable, but I knew that would be the case going into it and I have no regrets
On that note, moc (http://moc.daper.net/) is also pretty nice
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The article adds zero additional information I needed or wanted to know, and it took considerably more time to read.
Not to mention the further many, many people that died in excruciatingly awful ways from the radiation
There were several innovations bundled into Blitzkrieg so I don't think it's productive to clarify what the point is.

Virtually unstoppable armor helped, extreme local coordination helped, and extreme general decoupling helped. All of these factors are relevant to Blitzkrieg's success.